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- Dear XiPaint User!
-
- Thank you for using this product. XiPaint 4.0 gives you many
- new features - and we still develop this product. For the reason
- to have to the right tool also the right surroundings, I thought,
- the best way is to make a CD which have all things you need to
- paint.
-
- It is not the program alone, that satisfies - it's also the handling,
- the support the tools and the demonstration. Therefore, this CD
- gives you many import and export-modules, pictures, materials and
- and and.
-
- For a nice price it was necessary to have the manual on CD.
-
- Manual
- ======
-
- For this reason, I made AmigaGuide-Manuals, ASCII, and printable
- files to put out to your printer (in Deskjet, Laserjet and
- Postscript-Format). Only copy the desired files to your printer
- or click on the icon.
-
- The manual is made for version 3.0 - but its still the actual
- one. The new features are explained seperately.
-
- If you want to have a printed manual, you can get it at MacroSystem
- or NoahJi's.
-
- If you have troubles with the Laserjet-manual (the pages are printed
- only a half), so please stop printing and print before the manual
- a graphical page with an other programm (PC, or Amiga). I couldn't
- reproduce this - so I hope, this will help ...
-
- The nice multipic.library is copyright by MacroSystem (Thanks) and
- I need it for loading and saving. Its not freeware - but every
- XiPaint user may use it. From Mr. Hoffmann I got a demo of his
- fast external loaders. If you want to work with the full-version,
- please register you! More details are in the Shareware-folder.
-
- An other nice thing is Graffity. It's a Workbench emulation for
- the Omnibus, Merlin, Domino, Graffity and Picasso. So XiPaint is
- also available for this graphic-adapters.
-
- If you want to use the WACOM-tablett, you need the driver from
- Roland Schwingel, which is also in the Shareware-directory.
-
- XiPaint-Modul 4.2
- =================
-
- The universal loader module for XiPaint is Shareware
- (registration 18US$ for just the module or only 8US$
- add-on price if ordered together with CyberShow Professional,
- my SlideShow program for OS3.x incl. CyberGraphX support; see
- shareware drawer for demo versions; demos work in greyscale only).
-
- Special functions of the module:
-
- * downscaled loading (useful if you have lack of memorty) in 50% or 25% size
- * TrueColor animation creation for CyberGraphX (or EGS)
-
- Loading formats of the module:
-
- 1) IFF-ILBM (all standard formats 1 to 8Bit, EHB, HAM6, HAM8, 24Bit)
- 2) PhotoCD (Base format 768x512 or 512x768 (portrait); linear 24Bit RGB)
- 3) JPeg (color and greyscale)
- 4) PPM/PGM/PBM (P1&P4 b&w, P5 grey, P6 color)
- 5) QRT (also known as dump format by PD raytracers as POV-Ray)
- 6) Targa (RLE compr.&uncompr. 1/8/15/16/24/32Bit; incl. interleaved)
- 7) PCX (compr.&uncompr. EGA1-4Bit, VGA 8Bit grey/Colormap and 24Bit)
- 8) BMP (uncompr. 24Bit RGB,1Bit,4Bit or 8Bit Colormap; RLE compressed 8Bit,1Bit)
- 9) TIF (packbit-compr.&uncompr. 24Bit,1-8Bit grey/Color Motorola&Intel formats)
- 10) EGS7.x window icons
- 11) DEEP (compr.&uncompr. IFF-DEEP 24Bit and 32Bit formats)
- 12) YUV (color 1:1:1, 2:1:1, 4:1:1 and greyscale)
- 13) VLAB raw (color 1:1:1, 2:1:1, 4:1:1 and greyscale)
- 14) RGB (IFF-RGB: RGB8 and RGBN compressed; RGB5 uncompressed)
- 15) HHsYUVSq sequence format (sequential or random access)
- 16) IFF-PBM (DPII) format
- 17) ACBM (IFF-ACBM: 1 to 8Bit, EHB, HAM6, HAM8)
- 18) FBM (8Bit grey/Colormap and 24Bit)
- 19) Sun raster (uncompressed formats for 1Bit, 8Bit grey/ColorMap and 24Bit)
- 20) MacPaint (b&w compressed 1Bit format; datafork only)
- 21) HHsXRL formats (1-8Bit ColorMap incl. HAM6/8, 8Bit grey, 24Bit RGB compressed)
- 22) binary-EPS bitmaps (RGB and CMYK; this function is experimental)
- 23) TBCPlus frames&fields
-
- Address: Helmut Hoffmann
- Rubensstrasse 4
- D-41063 Moenchengladbach
- Germany
-
- Outputs
- =======
-
- the following drivers for Output are included:
-
- * Amiga 256 Farben
- * Amiga HAM6 und HAM8
- * Cybergfx
- * EGS
- * Framemaster 2
- * Graffity
- * Merlin (with ProDev Expansion, untested)
- * Picasso
- * VD2001
- * Retina
-
- A good driver for the Merlin is availble at ProDev.
-
- Problems
- ========
-
- If you have problems with starting XiPaint, so please use the little
- programm xpinit on the CD. Start it from the xipaint-drawer, where
- the main-programm is found. It tells you something about your
- libraries and versions and where there are.
-
- If you have no idea, why XiPaint can't find libraries, please copy
- all xipaint/libs/#? - libraries to libs:
-
- If you have a VLAB and no VLAB-Menu will open, so please start xipaint
- from a shell with the option 7. This bug will be fixed in the next version.
-
- Have you problems with loading your pictures? Maybe your loading-module
- is Internal-DEEP. Change this in the System-Folder under loader to the
- multipic-module (also for Saver).
-
- The following bug is fixed in this version of XiPaint:
- * Picture to Brush has the same sizes
-
- The following bug is known:
- * Raytracer-progressbar is to slow
-
- Thanks
- ======
-
- Thanx to my beta-testers:
-
- Tobias Abt
- Helmut Hoffmann
- Stevan Rankic
- Hartwig Tauber
-
-
-
- Have fun
-
- Thomas Dorn
- Herbert Beilschmidt
-
- Vienna, March 1996
-
-
- Adresses:
-
- NoahJi's Inc.
- 3591 Nyland Way
- Lafayette, CO 80026
- USA
- Fax: ++1 303 4991979
- NoahJi's:
- 3591 Nyland Way
- Lafayette, Co 80026
- (303) 499-1975 voice
- (303) 499-1979 Fax
- (303) 969-8967 BBS
- draco.com!eric
-
-
- MacroSystem
- Borgäcker 2-6
- D-58454 Witten
- GERMANY
- Phone: ++49-2302-949490
- FAX: ++49-2302-949499
-
- ProDev
- Marcel Jantz
- Eichendorfstr. 9
- Germany
- D-53859 Nierkassel
- Phone: ++49-6556-7536
-
-
- Thomas Dorn
- A-1210 Vienna
- Kerpengasse 69
-
- Fido: 2:310/98.0
- Internt: tdorn@xipaint.co.at
- Mailbox, Fax: ++43-1-2714549
-
-
- Magazines!
- ==========
-
- If you start XiPaint from a shell with the option 7 (xipaint 7),
- you are able to make Screenshots in the actual directory. These
- are made in DEEP-format, which you can transform with xipaint.
- Screenshots are possible with the PrtSc-Key.
-
-
- Translators!
- ============
- You want to change the help-texts? Start XiPaint in a Shell with the
- option 7 and press the Help-Key. The filename of the text-file is
- printed out to the shell.
-
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- Mr. Stefan Ossowski for making this CD!
-
- Stefan Ossowskis Schatztruhe
- Veronikastr. 33
- D-45131 Essen
- Germany
-